Normalize Cycling

NOTICE AS AT MAY 2019 – I have just copied this content across from another domain. The site needs the images and charts reloading. I will be working on the site as the time permits in the next few weeks.

About This Site

For a whole raft of reasons, Britain would be a far better place to live were cycling normal for trips a bit too far to walk, but hardly worth a car journey. In addition, Britain has great potential for cycle tourism. NormalizeCycling.com is my contribution to help make cycling normal.

Despite this, very little has changed. If anything, the situation actually appears to be getting worse, for reasons I suggest here (page to be written). The big revolution has yet to happen: cycling is still not common outside of a few traditional hot spots. That said, there are oases of success that demonstrate what can happen if the will is there: central London, Edinburgh, Bristol, and others. We knowwhat needs to be done. The challenges lie in how to make it happen, consistently.

Exemplars such as Copenhagen show that the dramatic collapse of cycling after the Second World War with the rise of mass motorization can be at least partially reversed given sustained effort:

Notices

The images on this site are either my own, or else have been sourced in good faith from online libraries.

And Finally…

Great Britain and the United Kingdom refer to different geographic areas. There is an increasing tendency for England and Wales to have separate information sources from Scotland. Just to complicate matters, the UK government reports road casualties for Great Britain, and the National Travel Survey now includes data only for England and Wales. The equivalent for Scotland is the Scottish Households Survey.

This mish-mash makes it impossible to consistently relate data to the UK, GB, England and Wales, or Scotland. The geographic basis of data is made clear in all cases.